21st Century College English Teaching Reference Book. Volume 1

Author: Gu Boqing
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: Welcome school and group orders, contact Mr. Wang at 010-51236217. "21st Century College English" series textbooks, a three-dimensional English teaching material that meets the requirements of 21st-century talents in higher education. Focuses on developing listening and speaking skills. With "listening and speaking" as the priority, it uses authentic and practical listening and speaking materials as learning content, integrating listening and speaking training throughout the course to help students improve their English communication skills. Aims to enhance students' professional skills and qualities. Provides relevant practical training around students' daily learning, life, and future work, striving to lay a solid foundation through realistic learning processes. The selection is diverse, emphasizing "cross-cultural" knowledge teaching. It highlights the interest, informativeness, and practicality of the content, as well as the standardization of language and the diversity of styles, while integrating cultural content with language materials to introduce Western cultural backgrounds. Emphasizes the overall nature of teaching. Combines listening and speaking content with reading and writing content, integrating intensive reading, extensive reading, and extended reading to train and develop the five skills of listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translation around the same theme, forming an organic whole. Integrates "teaching, learning, practice, and assessment." It includes exercises related to the text content, mid-term and final examination papers, as well as special exercises tailored for the College English Test for Band 6 (PRETCO), enabling students to consolidate their learning while adapting to relevant English proficiency exams. Expands the teaching space and time to achieve a three-dimensional teaching material. Fully utilizes modern teaching methods such as audio tapes, multimedia learning courseware, electronic lesson plans, and online courses to guide students in developing their learning potential interactively and in three dimensions. This book consists of 8 units. Each unit is equipped with teaching recommendations, author introductions, background knowledge, text explanations, exercise answers, and mid-term and final examination paper answers and audio transcripts from the "Comprehensive Exercises."